Apollo 11

The Inside Story

David Whitehouse

• Publisher: Icon Books
• Year: 2019
• Print ISBN: 9781785785122
• eBook ISBN: 9781785785139
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: Science & Technology Biographies
• Index: History

'Terrific and enthralling' New Scientist



Fifty years ago, in July 1969, Apollo 11 became the first manned mission to land on the Moon, and Neil Armstrong the first man to step on to its surface. He and his crewmates, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins, were the latest men to risk their lives in this extraordinary scientific, engineering and human venture that would come to define the era.






In Apollo 11: The Inside Story, David Whitehouse reveals the true drama behind the mission, putting it in the context of the wider space race and telling the story in the words of those who took part – based around exclusive interviews with the key players.








This enthralling book takes us from the early rocket pioneers to the shock America received from the Soviets' launch of the first satellite, Sputnik; from the race to put the first person into space to the iconic Apollo 11 landing and beyond, to the agonising drama of the Apollo 13 disaster and the eventual winding-up of the Apollo program.



Here is the story as told by the crew of Apollo 11 and the many others who shared in their monumental endeavour. Astronauts, engineers, politicians, NASA officials, Soviet rivals – all tell their own story of a great moment of human achievement.

Index

A

1. Aaron, John 1
2. AFD Conference Loop 1
3. Agena target vehicle 1, 2, 3
4. Agnew, Spiro 1, 2
5. Aldrin, Edwin (Buzz)
   1. after Apollo program 1
   2. Apollo 11 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
   3. background 1
   4. oldest moonwalker alive 1
   5. and being first out of Lunar Module 1
   6. Gemini 12 1
   7. Moon landing 1, 2
   8. quotes 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
   9. see also Apollo 11
6. Aldrin, Edwin Sr 1
7. Aldrin, Joan 1, 2
8. Aldrin, Lois 1
9. all-up testing 1
10. Allen, Harvey 1
11. ‘America’ (Apollo 17 Command Module) 1
12. Anders, William (Bill) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
    1. quotes 1, 2
13. ‘Angry Alligator’ 1
14. Anikeyev, Ivan 1
15. ‘Antares’ (Apollo 14 Lunar Module) ...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Dedication
• Epigraph
• Contents
• Acknowledgements
• Prologue
• The Spoils of War
• Object D
• The Past and the Future
• Gagarin
• Mare Cognitum
• ‘Before this decade is out’
• The Judgement of Cape Flight
• A Fair Solar Wind
• ‘I wanted to beat the Russians. I didn’t like Russians.’
• Plugs Out
• Apollo is Faltering
• A Minor Mutiny
• ‘You have bailed out 1968’
• A Foreign and Hostile Environment
• ‘The greatest week in the history of the world’
• ‘Houston, we’ve had a problem’
• The Long Goodbye
• The Melancholy of All Things Done
• Sources
• Bibliography
• Index
• Plates
• Copyright